ANALYSIS: Credit to Doug Jones, Who Worked for the Win in Alabama

Breitbart ^ | 12-12-17 | Joel B. Pollack

[Jane Long]

I’ll be honest, Roy was a bad choice. I don’t want to get in trouble here, but Roy was never popular in Alabama to begin with... That was never taken into account.

Gosh...it's amazing that Roy was able to win the Republican primary, considering that 🙄

[wyowolf]

Hell ive heard him called Crazy Roy for YEARS... and I live in Atlanta!! its nothing new at all...

[dfwgator]

And despite everything, Roy still almost pulled it off, had he not gone Hillary the last week of the election and put it in cruise control, he just might have pulled it out.

[scottinoc]

Greg Gutfeld had the line of the night on election eve last year: The democrats have a great ground game...I mean literally they get votes from the ground...like 6 feet under.

[Angels27]

Yup. Jones campaigned like Trump. Moore campaigned like Hillary.

[oincobx]

>>>I’ll be honest, Roy was a bad choice. I don’t want to get in trouble here, but Roy was never popular in Alabama to begin with.

Correct. In 2012, when Romney won the state by 20%, Moorr edged out his opponent by just 4%.

[bjcoop]

Moore was his last election in 2012 by 4 points while Romney was crushing it.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Moore lost for the simple reason that Evangelicals didn’t know whether to believe Moore or not and decided the best thing to do is just not vote. They didn’t cast a vote for Jones.

[Theodore R.]

Yea, they didn’t even bother to post what candidates got what write-in votes.

[dfwgator]

Moore lost for the simple reason that Evangelicals didn’t know whether to believe Moore or not and decided the best thing to do is just not vote. They didn’t cast a vote for Jones.

If that helps them to sleep at night, I suppose, but their staying home did get Jones elected.

[EdnaMode]

I wonder what percent of Democrats would stay home if a Democrat was accused of what Moore was.

[IrishBrigade]

‘This is McConnell’s loss’

of course...Mitch held guns to the heads of all those voters who stayed home...

[Salvation]

Or is it about the write-ins that made the difference?

[oincobx]

>>>I have to ask this question, did there have to be an election to replace sessions, or could the governor just appoint someone?

The then-governor, Robert Bentley, replaced Sessions with Luther Strange, who has voted with the President every time.

The Code of Alabama, Section 36-9-8, says that if a vacancy occurs in a Senate seat more than four months before a general election, the governor is to call a special election “forthwith.”

Bentley interpreted that to mean that he had to announce the election date “forthwith,” rather than that the election had to be held “forthwith.” He chose Nov 2018.

After Bentley resigned in disgrace, his successor, Kay Ivey, chose a different interpretation of forthwith and moved the date up to Dec 2017.

[Mr. K]

don’t be stupid

They did not support him, let the democrats outspend them 14 to 1.

Getting out the vote is part of the job

[DoughtyOne]

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[jimmygrace]

I believe that hubris was largely responsible for this defeat. People around the nation did not respect the people of Alabama, and conservatives assumed that they were one issue voters, no matter who was running on each side and what other issues they had. You can’t run on anger and a single issue alone. Can’t afford to fight both Republicans and Democrats and hope to succeed.

[cowboyusa]

That’s the key, prayer. I confess, I did not pray much for this special election, but I will, and we all should be praying up a storm in 2018.

[proust]

Trump wasn’t supported by the GOP and Hillary outspent him by hundreds of millions of dollars. Saying Mitch didn’t get the conservative vote out in freakin ALABAMA is a cop out.

[SkyDancer]

Not a problem. I usually direct my comments on the article and not the poster as well.